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improved 20 acres of dry moor from heath, it 

 would not yield any rent, but now would let for 

 1 5s. an acre. The moor was one foot deep on 

 lack clay , and under that a loofe gravel, not 

 lime-flone. Marled it at the rate of 1 50 barrels an 

 acre, which colt, in labour 5s. white marie from 

 under a bog ; fpread it, and left it for a year, 

 which killed the heath effe&ually, then plough- 

 ed it twice, and took two fucceffive crops of po- 

 tatoes, without dung, the mil an extraordinary 

 one, the fecond not bad : then two crops of bar- 

 ley, which were very good : then oats. 2 crops, 

 both very good, and then fet it at 15s. an acre. 

 If he had ever fuch quantities of fuch land, he 

 would never flop from the improvement of it, 

 being amazingly profitable. 



Augufl the 27th to Ballyna, where I experi- 

 enced the moil polite reception from the Right 

 Honourable Mr. King ; the views of the diftant 

 mountains is very fine ; the country is almofl 

 encompafTed by them. Thole of Donnegal to 

 the right, a great rid^e, w T hich feparates Tyre- 

 ragh to the left, Nephin- noble in the front, and 

 Knockaree behind. Many kilns for drying corn 

 in the road. Faffed three miles of pafturage un- 

 der cattle, before I came to the river leading to 

 Ballyna. The views there are very beautiful, it 

 fpreads in different reaches. That of Ballyna is 

 •uncommonly pleafing j the river a noble bend to 

 a few riling grounds on which a fjart of the 

 town is feen ; beyond it the bridge, and the 

 whole crowned by the Nephin mountain, which 



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